Writing Short Reports : Aussie Icons

Aussie Icons: Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars

Welcome back to the Reading and Writing website! Watch the video above. It is a TV Commercial from the 1970s for Holden Cars - the Holden is still an "Aussie icon" but its sales have fallen over the years.

Discussion: What is an icon? Can you think of other products made in Australia which are iconic? What do you think about Aussie icons in our multicultural society? Do they appeal to you? Are they relevant to you?

Exercise 1: In class we read about the "Aussie Tinnie", highlighted topic sentences, ordered information, and took notes to write a short report. Look at the poster below and choose another "Aussie icon". Here are some icons you might like to write about:

(difficulty: medium) Sydney Opera House

(difficulty: medium - hard) Vegemite

(difficulty: easy) Kylie Minogue

(difficulty: easy) Boomerang

Take some notes, order your information and write a first draft. Bring it to class for proofing and editing.












Exercise 2: After having reviewed and edited your first draft. Type up your report and send me your final copy using the form below



Dictation & Spelling

Click here for the "Aussie Tinnie dictation" sheet we used in class last Thursday. (Word Doc 13kb)

1) Print out the sheet 2) fold it in half and 3) play the sound file below 4)fill in the gaps.



Spelling

Next week we will start creating some spelling lists. For the time being write down and learn these words from the dictation. (Can you think of others that follow the various patterns?)

ea

seats
feature

ow

bow
cowl

sh

shelf

ck

jacket

ai

drain-hole

ew

few

sight words to learn:

their / there / they / they're

where / wear / were / we're

If you are really keen to work on commonly misspelled words, play this video a few times through and study some of the words (but don't try to remember too many at once)



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